Hopefully you will remember my attempt at knitting I started a couple of weeks ago.(here) Well I finished it! Not quite what I was expecting, but nonetheless a success. Bernard has made it a firm favourite to wear with fluffy PJ's after a bath and whilst slobbing around the house doing homework.When the knitting is completed you end up with a diamond shape, so I turned in the 2 opposite corners to give a flat edge at neck and waist.All in all - not a bad try for my first non-blanket square knitting project!I may have another go and make one for me!!! … [Read more...]

Well goodness knows how long it's taken me to get creative and blog at the same time, but at last here it is!I am having a go at knitting, and not just blanket squares of a scarf! I am having a go at a jumper. I have always been tempted to have a go, but being a person of very little patience and given that I have no understanding of how a knitting pattern works or what the abbreviations mean it's a big task to take on!!But as is so often the case in my life, MIL the great and wise G'ma A has the remedy for me - a jumper with no pattern and of such simple construction that … [Read more...]